Analysis of pre-test interviews in a cohort of Brazilian patients with movement disorders.

Spinocerebellar ataxias and Huntington disease are heritable, adult onset, neurodegenerative disorders of movement. Both are autosomal dominant and caused by expansions in trinucleotide sequences in several genes. Because these expansions are associated with an almost complete penetrance, genetic tests are available at the diagnostic and predictive level.

[Situational diagnostic about violence against children and adolescents with disability in three institutions of Rio de Janeiro].

We present a situational diagnostic about violence against children and adolescent with disability, which were done in three referenced institutions in Rio de Janeiro, from federal and municipal level and from the third sector, based in 53 case studies. This article considered a recent theoretical study of violence in the disability field and it demonstrates that this subject is embryonic in Brazil and Latin American. The relevance of this study is in the description we did of the diversity and richness of the recent forms of assistance in the disability field.